Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lovers, particularly Thomas Babe and Joan Tolentino (Hermia and Lysander) evoked consistent and deserved laughter from the happy Opening Night audience, as did Avreml (Avreml!?) Friedman as a Yiddish Peter Quintz...
Halas organized the N.F.L. in 1920, after a hip injury and a .091 batting average freed him from playing right-field for the New York Yankees (his replacement was named Babe Ruth) and allowed him to concentrate on his first love, football. Last week the aftereffects of that same injury finally ended one of the most flamboyant careers in U.S. sport. Complaining that the arthritis in his hip "has progressed to the point where I simply cannot move about quickly enough on the sidelines," the most successful head coach in pro football retired and turned the job over...
...lose the game to the Cleveland Indians, 3-2, but The Mick's blast was a victory of its own. It was his 522nd homer in 17 years as a Yankee, and it moved him past Ted Williams into fourth place on the alltime list, behind Babe Ruth (714), Willie Mays (569) and Jimmy Foxx...
Died. Harold L. Gray, 74, creator of little Orphan Annie, the oldest babe (44) in the comic-strip woods; of cancer; in San Diego, Calif. Moonfaced and round-eyed, gold of hair and heart sweet little Annie lived in a nether world of town bullies and murderous Russian spies, karate chops and megaton bombs. And for those readers who followed Annie's antics in some 400 papers and sometimes wondered how a nice girl could get into all that trouble. Harold Gray had a ready answer: "Sweetness and light-who the hell wants it? Murder, rape and arson. That...
...cast, by the by, is worth the price of admission in itself. I will term Thomas Babe a gifted mimic, Susan Channing an actress of tremendous range, Dean Gitter the possessor of one of the most authoratitive stage presences about, Tommy Lee Jones an actor with a true gift for insightful readings, Stephen Kaplan a protean comic figure, and Marilyn Pitzele a remarkable dramatic and comic singer. Each term will fit the rest of the cast as well, and as may well be imagined, the permutations are incredible. I leave you to work out the details...